Jerrold Quotes

#1. Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Douglas William Jerrold

#2. Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Douglas William Jerrold

#3. Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Douglas William Jerrold

#4. What a fine-looking thing is war!
Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,
what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

Douglas William Jerrold

#5. I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Douglas William Jerrold

#6. Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Douglas William Jerrold

#7. Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Douglas William Jerrold

#8. Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

Douglas William Jerrold

#9. Love the sea? I dote upon it
from the beach.

Douglas William Jerrold

#10. Humor is the harmony of the heart.

Douglas William Jerrold

#11. Man owes two solemn debts
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Douglas William Jerrold

#12. We are all slaves to the shining metal.

Douglas William Jerrold

#13. Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Douglas William Jerrold

#14. Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Douglas William Jerrold

#15. Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Douglas William Jerrold

#16. While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

Jerrold Nadler

#17. I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

Jerrold Mundis

#18. Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Douglas William Jerrold

#19. Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

Jerrold Nadler

#20. Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Douglas William Jerrold

#21. There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

#22. Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Douglas William Jerrold

#23. Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Douglas William Jerrold

#24. Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Douglas William Jerrold

#25. If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Douglas William Jerrold

#26. The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold

#27. Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Douglas William Jerrold

#28. If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

Jerrold Nadler

#29. Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Douglas William Jerrold

#30. A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Douglas Jerrold

#31. A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Douglas William Jerrold

#32. I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.

Jerrold Nadler

#33. Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

Jerrold Nadler

#34. Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Douglas William Jerrold

#35. Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

Douglas William Jerrold

#36. The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

Douglas William Jerrold

#37. It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.

Jerrold Nadler

#38. He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

Douglas William Jerrold

#39. If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Jerrold Nadler

#40. It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

Jerrold Nadler

#41. If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that.

Jerrold Nadler

#42. I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

Douglas William Jerrold

#43. After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Douglas William Jerrold

#44. Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Jerrold Nadler

#45. Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Douglas William Jerrold

#46. A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Douglas Jerrold

#47. Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Douglas William Jerrold

#48. The sharp employ the sharp.

Douglas William Jerrold

#49. Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.

Walter Jerrold

#50. As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Douglas William Jerrold

#51. If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

Douglas William Jerrold

#52. Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Douglas William Jerrold

#53. Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

Douglas William Jerrold

#54. Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Jerrold Nadler

#55. I am thinking of our family's women
as faraway bulbs, their history
with crippling loss, and
how I am pieced together, shell and sand,
from the spine of their collective strength.

Jerrold Yam

#56. The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Douglas William Jerrold

#57. Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Douglas William Jerrold

#58. Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Douglas William Jerrold

#59. In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Douglas William Jerrold

#60. Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

Douglas William Jerrold

#61. Malice blunts the point of wit.

Douglas William Jerrold

#62. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

#63. He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Douglas William Jerrold

#64. A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

Douglas William Jerrold

#65. The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

Jerrold Nadler

#66. O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

Douglas William Jerrold

#67. Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

Douglas William Jerrold

#68. Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

Douglas William Jerrold

#69. A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Douglas William Jerrold

#70. ... when your palm laced like water
on a cheek of mine, a finger raiding
each contour by oath, we both knew
that in growing up, some signs had to be
sought behind closed doors, and upon discovery,
remain beyond the doors we wrought as ransom.

Jerrold Yam

#71. What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Douglas William Jerrold

#72. That questionable superfluity small beer.

Douglas William Jerrold

#73. The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Douglas William Jerrold

#74. A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Douglas William Jerrold

#75. A piece of simple goodness
a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature
a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.

Douglas William Jerrold

#76. Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Douglas William Jerrold

#77. Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Douglas William Jerrold

#78. Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

Jerrold Nadler

#79. The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

Douglas William Jerrold

#80. Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Douglas William Jerrold

#81. That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Douglas William Jerrold

#82. Rest. Let the letting
go. It is better to heal
than not to have loved at all.

Jerrold Yam

#83. A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

Douglas William Jerrold

#84. Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

Douglas William Jerrold

#85. The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Douglas William Jerrold

#86. Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Douglas William Jerrold

#87. A blessed companion is a book
a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend ... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

Douglas William Jerrold

#88. Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

Douglas William Jerrold

#89. Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

Douglas William Jerrold

#90. God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

Douglas William Jerrold

#91. There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Douglas William Jerrold

#92. Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Douglas William Jerrold

#93. We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Jerrold Nadler

#94. We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Jerrold Nadler

#95. We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Douglas William Jerrold

#96. Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

Douglas William Jerrold

#97. Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Douglas William Jerrold

#98. There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Douglas William Jerrold

#99. He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold